Shotlist

1. British Member of Parliament and activist George Galloway greeting Hamas officials

2. Hamas Prime Minister in Gaza Ismail Haniyeh greeting Galloway

3. Officials taking seat

4. Mid of Haniyeh talking

5. Wide of meeting

6. Pan of meeting with officials applauding

7. Haniyeh and Galloway shaking hands as Haniyeh giving a Palestinian passport to Galloway as a gift

8. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas Prime Minister in Gaza:

"I have closely watched the arrival of the convoy from the moment it arrived at the Rafah crossing, and today the handing over of the keys to the vehicles and the aid supplies."

AP Television

Rafah crossing, southern Gaza Strip, near border with Egypt

9. Wide of Galloway and Hamas officials standing in front of destroyed building

10. Galloway looking closely at twisted metal

11. Close up of gun with Galloway and Hamas officials in background

12. Convoy of Galloway arriving at border crossing

13. SOUDNBITE: (English) George Galloway, British Member of Parliament and activist:

"The material destruction is very great, the suffering is very real, but the spirit of the people is strong. If anyone is calculating that by starving and sieging and bombing the Palestinian people that they will one day surrender, I'm sure that they are wrong, the spirit of the Palestinian resistance remains."

14. Tilt down from Egyptian flag at Rafah crossing to security standing by gate

Storyline

British member of parliament and activist, George Galloway, was in Gaza on Wednesday where he met Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas Prime Minister in Gaza, and other officials.

It was the first time Haniyeh has appeared on camera since the end of the recent Gaza war.

Galloway entered Gaza on Monday, along with about 50 British and Scottish volunteers and 100 vehicles carrying food, clothing and medicine, through the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and Gaza.

On Tuesday, Galloway handed over cash donations and the keys of 100 aid vehicles to Hamas officials.

Haniyeh on Wednesday confirmed receipt of the donation.

"I have closely watched the arrival of the convoy from the moment it arrived at the Rafah crossing, and today the handing over of the keys to the vehicles and the aid supplies," he said.

The delegation is on an aid mission organised by the British charity, Viva Palestina.

After his meeting with Haniyeh, Galway looked at some of the destruction caused by Israel's three-week offensive against Gaza which ended in late January.

"The material destruction is very great, the suffering is very real, but the spirit of the people is strong," Galloway said before leaving Rafah for Egypt.

On Tuesday, Galloway said that in total 300 British citizens and 200 Libyans would be entering Gaza as part of the mission.

Other aid, including electrical generators and a fire engine, would enter Israel, where the UK delegation hoped to get it into Gaza through coordination with the International Committee of the Red Cross.

Handing donated funds directly to Gaza-rulers Hamas is in violation of international sanctions imposed against the group which is considered a "terrorist organisation" by Israel, the United States and Europe - including Britain.

Most aid supplies to Gaza are handled through the United Nations or any of the non-governmental organisations operating in the territory.

The sanctions were imposed when Hamas, who were overwhelmingly democratically elected in a 2006 Palestinian parliament vote, broke off with the government of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas following months of conflict over power-sharing with the new government.

The group eventually took control of the Gaza Strip in June 2007, leaving Abbas' government in nominal control of the occupied West Bank only.

Israel - with Egypt on one border - has enforced a strict blockade of the seaside strip since then.

Earlier the British MP said the trip was to demonstrate that desperately needed aid could be brought to Gaza, despite the blockades on its borders.

The Israeli government said it allows daily convoys of aid into Gaza and denies that there are shortages of food, fuel or medicine there.

But human rights organisations and the United Nations have repeatedly said that the blockade has caused a humanitarian catastrophe for the impoverished 1.4 (m) million Gazans trapped in the territory.

The crisis was made worse by Israel's devastating three-week military offensive on the Strip earlier this year which killed nearly 1,300 Palestinians, including hundreds of civilians, and left behind an estimated two (b) billion US dollars in damage.